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Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their…
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In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite,…
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Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the…
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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of…
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both.
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There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
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Invention is the mother of necessity.
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In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
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The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical…
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It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of…
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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.
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I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.
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Seriously, though, I think I never ceased to be grateful of the fact that I am able to do a job that…
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Dad never ceased to remind my mother of his love for her,
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I have never ceased to rejoice that God has appointed me to such an office.
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The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's…
— Charles Perrault
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She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore…
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She never sat down in a car but stood, braced tense, facing the wind. Now and again she would turn her face…
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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased…
— Antonin Artaud
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Quoting Dudjom Rinpoche on the buddha-nature: No words can describe it No example can point to it Samsara does not make it…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.
— Alexandre Vinet
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The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus…
— Raymond Chandler
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